Colt 1908 Pocket .380acp "Model M"

[wyntrout]

I ran across a bunch of pictures of this pistol and it's for sale $800. I thought some of you might just want to see the pictures. An unusual find.
Wynn:D

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[Bawanna]

That's sure a gosh darn beauty Wyn. Would love to call it my own but then what wouldn't I want to call my own. I had a 1905 Colt Commercial ??that was very similar but larger and in 38ACP. Not nickeled and pretty like that but real nice shape. Fella offered me a good price but couldn't pull it off. He may still have it for all I know. All started with me trying to find him a magazine for it and then he let it live at my house for a few months. I shouldn't have given it back, I'm sure he would have forgotten I had it given time. Dang Missouri honesty, just kills me sometimes.

[jlottmc]

Well Bawanna that's how it goes, my late father in law had a Browning vest pocket in 25, I was supposed to make a new extractor, but just never got to it.

[Bawanna]

Well Bawanna that's how it goes, my late father in law had a Browning vest pocket in 25, I was supposed to make a new extractor, but just never got to it.

Vest pocket, is that the one they call the Baby Browning? I have one of those in limbo right now. Long story but I'm probably gonna get it back. LNIB, it's really sweet. Has the original receipt from the Bon Marche for 37.50 with case out the door. Priceless.

[mr surveyor]

Vest pocket, is that the one they call the Baby Browning? I have one of those in limbo right now. Long story but I'm probably gonna get it back. LNIB, it's really sweet. Has the original receipt from the Bon Marche for 37.50 with case out the door. Priceless.


I'll give you $50 for it.... and drive to your house to pick it up:D

I've been lusting for a Belgian Baby Browning for at least 40 years.

Oh, what the heck..... I'll even buy you a beer, or three, when we close the deal:)


surv

[Bawanna]

I'll give you $50 for it.... and drive to your house to pick it up:D

I've been lusting for a Belgian Baby Browning for at least 40 years.

Oh, what the heck..... I'll even buy you a beer, or three, when we close the deal:)


surv

Hmmm, what kind of beer?

I might as well tell the Baby Browning story since I got time and it's quiet around here. A freind I went to high school with who has now been moved over to my aquintance list due to this episodes father bought this gun in 1965 with a credit card. His dad passed about 10 years ago or so and a few years ago my acquantance gave me the gun, receipt and the case it came in. I was shocked of course. Anyhow a few weeks ago he'd down to visit and made the remark that he couldn't believe that he gave me the center piece of his gun collection? I didn't give it back but it got my wheels turning. Last weekend my son drove up to this guys shop to work on his truck, he's a mechanic so he was gonna help my kid. I sent the little Browning up with him since it was his dads and felt he was more entitled to it. While he's there he tells my son that his dad on his death bed told him to give me that Browning!!! He accused me of likeing Obama cause I was giving guns away. He never mentioned the death bed thing to me when he gave it to me. Puts things in a whole new perspective dont ya think. Now it's a gift from his dad, not him. He waited 3 or 4 years to do what his dad wished and then laid a guilt trip on me to get it back. I'm just gonna let it ride, it was his dad although I obviously got along with him as well or better than his son. He got several of his other guns. I won't hide my dissapointment and if he ever brings it back down here it'll be a one way trip. He needs to man up and be a man of honor. Ok, bye

[mr surveyor]

dang... after that story I feel like I need to get the brewing equipment back together and brew whatever style you want. Might as well be a nice highly hopped IPA since it would take about six weeks to get it brewed, fermented, cleared and bottled. IPA's are nice during the heat spells of late spring.

I kinda had a similar experience with a vintage 1893 Winchester gallery model .22 short pump, and a good friend from high school. I traded him a stereo amplifier for the gun when we were seniors in high school. His Dad was military, stationed in Korea (I think) when he was born, and the Dad died when my buddy was pretty young. The gun was supposedly his Dad's, and hadn't been shot or handled since his Dad was around, and his Mom wanted it out of the house anyway. I loved that gun as much as one could love any firearm, and it was a part of my life for 35 years. A few years ago my friend's son ended up working for the "other surveyor" in town and we became pretty good friends, and had the occassion to have dinner with my friend's family at a pre-wedding party for the younger. It was great to see my old friend again, and relive a lot of old memories. After the party I came home and pulled "my" old trusty Winchester out of the closet and fondled it a bit....having recently lost my own father I couldn't help but think about my old buddy never having had all the years of groeing up with his father... and thinking about all the times my Dad and I went to the woods to "plink" the .22 rifles. My mind was made up.... when I got to see my old friend a few months later at our 35th high school class reunion, I asked him to swing by my house the next day before he headed home since I had something I wanted to give him. Yep, I (tearfully) gave him the Winchester... I think it meant more to me giving it to him than it will ever mean to him, as he's not a gun person, and probably never had any sentimental attachment to it. But, dammit, it WAS his father's gun.... I have to keep repeating that to this day. He definately appreciated the gesture, but I'm sure has no intention of carressing the old gun like it had become accustomed to for 35 years. I've seen only a few specimins of the same over the years, and recently that particuar style/model, in the same 85% condition, selling for $700-900.... I couldn't have ever sold it, even at those prices.


Damn.... I totally bummed now....let's get drunk!


surv

[Bawanna]

dang... after that story I feel like I need to get the brewing equipment back together and brew whatever style you want. Might as well be a nice highly hopped IPA since it would take about six weeks to get it brewed, fermented, cleared and bottled. IPA's are nice during the heat spells of late spring.

I kinda had a similar experience with a vintage 1893 Winchester gallery model .22 short pump, and a good friend from high school. I traded him a stereo amplifier for the gun when we were seniors in high school. His Dad was military, stationed in Korea (I think) when he was born, and the Dad died when my buddy was pretty young. The gun was supposedly his Dad's, and hadn't been shot or handled since his Dad was around, and his Mom wanted it out of the house anyway. I loved that gun as much as one could love any firearm, and it was a part of my life for 35 years. A few years ago my friend's son ended up working for the "other surveyor" in town and we became pretty good friends, and had the occassion to have dinner with my friend's family at a pre-wedding party for the younger. It was great to see my old friend again, and relive a lot of old memories. After the party I came home and pulled "my" old trusty Winchester out of the closet and fondled it a bit....having recently lost my own father I couldn't help but think about my old buddy never having had all the years of groeing up with his father... and thinking about all the times my Dad and I went to the woods to "plink" the .22 rifles. My mind was made up.... when I got to see my old friend a few months later at our 35th high school class reunion, I asked him to swing by my house the next day before he headed home since I had something I wanted to give him. Yep, I (tearfully) gave him the Winchester... I think it meant more to me giving it to him than it will ever mean to him, as he's not a gun person, and probably never had any sentimental attachment to it. But, dammit, it WAS his father's gun.... I have to keep repeating that to this day. He definately appreciated the gesture, but I'm sure has no intention of carressing the old gun like it had become accustomed to for 35 years. I've seen only a few specimins of the same over the years, and recently that particuar style/model, in the same 85% condition, selling for $700-900.... I couldn't have ever sold it, even at those prices.


Damn.... I totally bummed now....let's get drunk!


surv

Your a man of honor, hopefully given time your high school buddy will realize the sentimental value of the rifle. If it still means nothing to him hopefully one day it'll come back to you to be loved as it should be.
I have a similar family related story involving two winchesters but I'll save it for another time.
I guess any brew will do, your way over my head in the brew dept. I'll let you know when / if the baby comes home. Maybe I'll post some pictures.

[jlottmc]

That's the story of ALL of my father in laws guns including a BLR in 308, the baby Browning, and his shotguns, and 22's. He passed and the mother in law never once asked if my wife would like any of it, she just auctioned it off. I even told her once as I was fondling and cleaning the BLR what it was really worth. I knew no one would ever love those guns like he did. They would have been all but mine for a new loving home if my wife had ended up with them, but I think that was exactly the issue. My wife recalls often of seeing daddy go out and come home with that BLR. Those are the kinds of memories I want my daughter to have.

[recoilguy]

WOW what a nice gun!!!

Bwanna bummer my friend that guy is kinda a tool........

My daughter looked at me in church and said Daddy you have your gun right? I said why honey did you see it......she smiled at me and said no I like the way your gun smells after you clean it!!!


I laughed to myself.

RCG

[Bawanna]

WOW what a nice gun!!!

Bwanna bummer my friend that guy is kinda a tool........

My daughter looked at me in church and said Daddy you have your gun right? I said why honey did you see it......she smiled at me and said no I like the way your gun smells after you clean it!!!


I laughed to myself.

RCG

Oh I love it! Sounds like you got a real keeper of a daughter. And a great nose. Some of the stuff we put on our guns certainly has a distinctive odor, some good, some not. I doubt most would even pick up on it and if they do who really cares. We can always call Dietrich if we need camoflage.

[jlottmc]

I think he might have the grease on now. He lives awful close to Central Prison if my memory fails me (which it does...often). That is a good thing for you and your daughter. My two year old little girl was trying to help me Thursday afternoon. Not quite ready for that kind of help though.